Kant does not regard freedom as an item of faith because it is too basic to our agency to be related to any end.

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.

Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.

Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

People are often most proud of precisely those things of which they should most be ashamed.

Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of deciding what to do.

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.

In general, those who defend capitalism are basically out of touch with reality.

The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better understand its validity for us.

Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.

Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good.

Gloomy ones must learn to light the Fire of Inspiration – the Spark that will clear the Dark within.

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

A slave is but half a man.

If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.

Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.